Collar holder



C. H. ALLEN.

COLLAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION man MAY 21. 1921.

1,404,257. Patented Jan. 24,1922.

UNITED STATES CHARLES H. ALLEN, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

COLLAR HOLDER.

Application filed May 27,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices intended for the retention of the corners of collars and adjacent edges of garments.

The essential objects of my invention are to insure a secure engagement of the holder with the fabric; to control the degree of such engagement; to enable the engagement of one collar corner independently of the other; and to attain this end in a simple, inexpensive, and easily manipulated structure.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my holder closed,

Figures 2 and 3, a plan of the same in open and closed positions respectively, and

Figures at and 5, sections on lines 4-4: and 55 respectively of Figures 1 and 4.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In detail my holder comprises two rods 7 having transversely curved or rounded outer faces 8, and fiat inner faces 9. The central portions of the rods are straight and have their fiat faces 9 in contact with each other and are tightly held together at this point by a strap 12 fast thereto. From their intermediate portions 10 the rods gradually diverge from each other towards their Specification or Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

1921. Serial No. 473,137.

ends forming outwardly inclined resilient arms 13 whose extremities are bent to form inwardly directed pairs of terminal fingers 14 having flat end faces 15 normally spaced from each other when the arms are free, and adapted to engage each other when the arms are compressed. At each side of the strap surrounding the pairs of arms is a clamping ring 17 of greater diameter than that of the arms adjacent the strap 12 but of less diameter than the space occupied by the arms at an intermediate portion of the latter. Therefore when the rings are in the positions shown in Figure 2 the arms 13 are distended and the fingers 14 are spaced from each other. When either or both the rings are manually moved away from the strap the arms are gradually contracted and the faces 15 of the fingers approach each other. In Figure 3 the finger faces are shown in contact with each other.

To operate, the collar or garment edges are inserted between "the fingers when the device is in open position, and then the operator slides the rings until the fingers clamp upon the fabric.

I claim:

In a collar holder, two rods provided with rounded outer faces and flat inner faces comprising central portions with the flat faces in contact with each other, and diverg-. ing resilient arm portions, fingers upon the ends of the arm portions directed towards each other and provided with flat end faces, means for binding together the central portions of the rods, and clamping rings on the arm portions.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

CHARLES H. ALLEN. 

